Does anyone know...

[mad4music]

what the sayings they write on graves are called and if so does anyone know any like I remember one we learnt in school which wa
Something
and then the last line was
Cursed be them man who removes these bones"
I cant remember who it was for though...I think it ws a writers but I'm not sure

Anyway anyoneknow please reply

Amx

[Buenchico]

The whole of what appears on a gravestone (including the dates, etc), is simply an inscription. The words specifically composed to refer to the deceased person form an epitaph. The epitaph on the gravestone of William Shakespeare is "GOOD FREND FOR JESUS SAKE FORBEARE TO DIGG THE DUST ENCLOASED HEARE.
BLEST BE YE MAN YT SPARES THES STONES AND CURST BE HE YT MOVES MY BONES"

This might be of interest:
http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/epitaphs/

Chris

[mad4music]

thanks...I was going crazy trying to think of it.You have just saved me from insanity......o my hero! :L no honestly thanks!

amx

[RATTER15]

God saw his/her footsteps falter, the hill came far too steep, he lay his head to rest, and bade him gently sleep.

Here lies the body of James Bunn, who was shot with a gun, his name wasn't really Bunn but Wood but Wood wouldn't rhyme with gun and Bunn would.

or as Spike Milligans epitaph says: "I told you I was ill"

[andrea81]

Although not dead and hpefully not for for a long while, I thought I would add that Billy Connolly has once said that he would like his epitaph to include very small writing, in which you would need to stand close to read. You would then read "You are standing on my b@lls!"